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After 13 years on YouTube, MatPat is stepping down from hosting Game Theory, Film Theory, Food Theory, and Style Theory.

“Steph and I have known this video would be coming for the last three years,” he says in a 25-minute video uploaded this afternoon. “We weren’t sure it was necessarily gonna be today, we didn’t know exactly when it would fall, but we knew it was gonna happen eventually.”

That’s why, he says, Theorist Media has been staffing up for the past couple of years, and why MatPat and Stephanie agreed to sell the company to Lunar X in late 2022. They’ve been laying the groundwork for MatPat to pull back from hosting and for them both to take a bit of a breather.

As for his reasons for pulling back, MatPat jokingly blames Tom Scott and his epic goodbye video, then gets serious and tells viewers that...

In the late 1970s, an associate professor in the Philosophy department at Johns Hopkins (thesis title: "The Nature of the Natural Numbers") began publishing essays on Hollywood movies. George M. Wilson wasn't the first person to undergo this shift in specialism. At the start of the decade, Stanley Cavell had published The World Viewed, a series of "reflections on the ontology of film." But Cavell had always been concerned with how works of art enable us to think through philosophical themes such as knowledge and meaning, and he held a chair, at Harvard, in Aesthetics. Wilson differed in that he brought a range of analytic gifts to an ongoing revolution: the close reading of American cinema, conceived as part of the "auteur" policy of Truffaut and other writers at Cahiers du cinéma in the 1950s, and concertedly developed in the following decades by critics in England such as V. F.

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By Jacob Oller

Film theory and music theory combine in an interesting and in-depth look at Beethoven and movies. f pop soundtracks are time capsules, classical scores are time machines. The emotions and history pent up in the orchestral arrangements of the past seep through even the most modern films when used correctly. Some films might use them […]

The article Deep Beethoven: Film’s Love of Allegretto appeared first on Film School Rejects.

Matthew Patrick, the host of the Game Theory and Film Theory YouTube channels, is an avowed fan of virtual reality, and his latest project sees him diving into the Vr world once again. The man known as MatPat is the host of The Global Gamer, a new series shot entirely with a 360-degree camera.

In The Global Gamer, Patrick travels the world in a quest to determine what links cultures together and what makes them distinct, all filtered through the lens of video games. The first leg of his journey takes him to Japan, where he uses a combination of interviews and field explorations to explore topics like arcades and rhythm games .

Patrick’s YouTube Red series, MatPat’s Game Lab, ultimately won a Streamy Award for its impeccable use of Vr, and here, the YouTube star has teamed up with the studio Vanishing Angle to create more compelling work within the 360-degree video format.

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